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Postings from August 2013
On Thu Aug 08 16:38:58 2013, jkeenan wrote: > On Mon Oct 19 01:14:19 2009, nicholas wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 02:42:15PM -0700, Father Chrysostomos wrote: > > > > > > On Oct 10, 2009, at 12:27 PM, Jesse via RT wrote: > > > > > > >On Tue Sep 22 21:31:51 2009, sprout@cpan.org wrote: > > > >>In Snow Leopard, Apple replaced the scripts that come with perl > > > >>(pod2html, perlbug, etc.) with wrappers that delegate to the script > > > >>with the version number tacked on the end (pod2html5.8.9 or > > > >>pod2html5.10.0 [Snow Leopard comes with two versions of perl]). All > > > >>these wrappers are actually hard links to the same file. > > > >> > > > >>I was trying to install 5.10.1 over the system perl (with -Dprefix=/ > > > >>usr), and, since the scripts already installed are all the same file, > > > >>psed ended up being installed with a dozen different names, it being > > > >>the last script to be installed. > > > >> > > > >>Shouldn?t installperl be unlinking files if they already exist? > > > > > > > >So, we talked about "don't do this" in this specific case, > > > > > > I actually consider the slight possibility of having to type ?sudo ln > > > perl5.10.0 perl? some day far less painful than changing every script > > > that begins with #!/usr/bin/perl -C. Anyway, I?ve seen some of Apple?s > > > install code. It is simplistic enough it would probably run under > > > 5.00. I don?t think it will break. > > > > I still don't think that we want to do this. > > > > Nicholas Clark > > > > > This ticket has generated no correspondence in nearly four years. > > Can we conclude that we do not want to modify installperl to delete > files before copying (and thereby enable us to close the ticket)? Well, *I* don’t agree with that! :-) -- Father ChrysostomosThread Next